BlackBerry 10 Use the 'Keyboard' to Feature Virtual Word Prediction

BlackBerry 10 Use the 'Keyboard' to Feature Virtual Word Prediction

Research in Motion (RIM) as the manufacturer of BlackBerry BlackBerry has been showing a prototype 10 Dev Alpha.

On a mobile phone is still a prototype is no longer a regular physical keyboard on the BlackBerry mobile phones. Instead, RIM uses a virtual keyboard comes with a word prediction feature.

As reported by Mashable, Thorsten Heins RIM CEO says BlackBerry will begin to focus using the virtual keyboard, with no abandon the use of a physical keyboard that had been there on BlackBerry phones.

In his speech, he also mentioned that the BlackBerry OS 10 has the ability to display a virtual keyboard. The virtual keys are specially designed for BlackBerry devices 10.

This virtual keyboard has a better prediction software, both for word formation and sentence formation.

"When typing, the BlackBerry device 10 will predict the next word or sentence to be typed. To select a word in question, the user can immediately undergo a swipe," Heins said.

Heins hopes the presence of these new features will provide the innovation on the BlackBerry device and might be adapted in the BlackBerry device that has a physical keyboard.

Here's a demo virtual keyboard of a BlackBerry device 10:

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